Women's Volleyball Weekly Release - Week 4

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League women's
volleyball teams have a light calendar this week as Ivy League play
begins.

Only five matches are on the docket this week, four of them
kicking off Ancient Eight action this coming weekend. All five
matches are on the schedule for The Ivy League® Digital
Network, including Cornell's debut.

Two Ivies took on nationally-ranked foes over the weekend as
Yale faced top-ranked Penn State at Rec Hall on Saturday night and
Dartmouth (7-4) hosted ninth-ranked Minnesota during its tournament
Saturday. Yale (6-3) saw a four-match winning streak halted in the
loss to the Nittany Lions. The Bulldogs' three losses have come at
the hands of Missouri, No. 7 Stanford and No. 1 Penn State.

Penn was also riding a four-match winning streak over the
weekend, but dropped a 3-1 decision to host Villanova on Saturday
night. The Quakers (5-5) had won three five-setters in that streak
and have recorded four of their five wins this season in five-set
matches.

Harvard (5-3) defeated cross-city rival Boston College for the
first time since 2002 on Saturday night. the Crimson hit a red-hot
.452 in the first three sets and then held on for a 25-23 win in
the clincher for a four-set win.

In the first Ivy action of the year, Harvard hosts Dartmouth and
Princeton hosts Penn on Friday night. Yale hosts Brown and Cornell
hosts Columbia on Saturday.

CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Brown senior Thea Derrough (La Jolla, Calif.) hit
.328 last week as the Bears went 2-1 at the Temple Invitattional.
Derrough was steady throughout with 28 kills and seven blocks,
including a 10-kill, six-block outing in a win over Delaware State.
She is the first Bear to win Player of the Week since September
2010.

Yale sophomore Jesse Ebner
(Portola Valley, Calif.) helped the Bulldogs to a 2-1 week at
the Penn State Classic, earning all-tournament honors. She had 27
kills and hit .321 on the weekend, including a double-double
against Eastern Kentucky with 16 kills and 10 digs to go along with
four aces and four blocks.

CO-ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Dartmouth oustide hitter Emily Astarita
(Setauket, N.Y.) recorded back-to-back double-doubles, including an
impressive showing against ninth-ranked Minnesota. After seeing
limited action on Friday, Astarita had 11 kills and 11 digs in a
four-set win over New Hampshire to begin her Saturday. She closed
out the weekend by hitting .429 against the Gophers with 14 kills
and 12 digs in a three-set loss to the nation's No. 9-ranked squad.

Harvard outside hitter Grace
Weghorst (Austin, Texas) hit .224 on the week and had 11
kills in Harvard's four-set win over Boston College on Saturday
night. It was the first time the Crimson beat the Eagles since
2002.